Julie McNiven joins Stargate Universe for 5-episode arc

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• I think having the Lucian Alliance on the show is a bad idea. They are not strong villains at all. If SGU is trying to be different, then there should be a new recurring villain. And how is the Lucian Alliance all of a sudden capable of attacking a fortified military base in the mountains with a cruiser orbiting above the planet? That just makes no sense.

• She was very good in Supernatural so I'm all for this. I'm assuming the are going to make the Lucian Alliance not seem like noobs. Perhaps a new branch or covert section we have not seen before, etc.

• Oi it was hard enough to think up a plausible scenario where ONE Lucian Alliance spy was able to either a) infiltrate one of Earth's most important off-world bases, or b) land and get through the Stargate in the attack (and then have nobody wonder who they are etc). I don't even want to consider there being a c) involving those damn stones O_o

  @JohnSN7, I've made the same comments before about how even 3 Ha'taks shouldn't stand a chance against Earth's newest cruiser, let alone how only a few minutes of orbital bombardment made the MOUNTAIN unstable enough to overload the thermal power source...that is who knows how many Kilometers underground lol...

  Anyway.. at this point we all know the show is weak on Sci-Fi because it's a character drama/soap opera dealy. Just sucks though, stuff like this would never have happened in previous Stargates (at least not w/o better, more believable explanations!).

  But back to the topic, I'm not familiar with this actress but I think for the most part the cast is talented and I'm sure she will keep up that high standard. Now if only the writers would make use of their skills and give us characters we can actually care about!

• I wish they would of come up with a whole new enemy rather than the Lucian Alliance since they are millions of light years away. But who knows maybe it will be a good episode.

• Do Angels qualify as Aliens?

• Oh my god, not Lucian Alliance :(.

• @kosh "Anyway.. at this point we all know the show is weak on Sci-Fi because it’s a character drama/soap opera dealy. Just sucks though, stuff like this would never have happened in previous Stargates (at least not w/o better, more believable explanations!)."

  You mean like a Wraith cruiser standing up to Atlantis drones, but blowing up from a single nuclear warhead? Or the nonsensical "Red Sky?" Stargate has never been wonderful on believable sci-fi. But any time you'd like a plausible explanation of the Icarus attack, I'll give it to you.

• I liked Julie McNiven in Supernatural till the writers turned her against Sam and Dean in it, she is very nice to look at..

• @Morrolan, well I mean pretty much any armored structure or ship is made to withstand strikes from the outside to protect what is inside. But if you detonate something (especially as big as a nuke) inside the ship/structure, especially in the vacuum of space, I don't really have a problem with the 'science' behind that being more deadly than drones? As for "Red Sky", that's the old SG1 ep where they screwed up the sun's mass or whatever? Sure, that is kind of over the top and nonsensical... but isn't that also part of what makes it Sci-Fi ("fiction")? Besides, if I remember correctly, they actually went to great lengths to explain the problem and their fix to it, right down to the 'math'.. That's great in my books! We don't have any explanations like that in SGU - shields that leak oxygen but keep out the sun's radiation, how the mountain/exploded after only a few minutes of bombardment from 3 Ha'taks, etc etc. None of it is really explained. Even Eli's idea that Earth should be the point of origin when dialing as a 'code'... that wasn't even hardly explained... So my point was that in past Stargates, they at least give us sci-fi junkies our fix with their wacky and fun explanations of things :)

• Doh sorry... Paragraphs didn't work for some reason, can you edit these comments? Reading walls of text is no fun heh O_o